Lou-ah-ville (The Louisville group)
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Bred in 1993 by the English rose breeder David C. H. Austin (1926-2018)
I took this picture in the Volksgarten in Vienna yesterday. It's a by-product of my participation in the all-day demonstration against the turquoise-blue government coalition near the Chancellery. The Ballhausplatz in front of it was much too small for some 10,000 demonstrators, so lots of them populated part of the nearby Volksgarten.
Bredene hat keinen Deich, verfügt jedoch über eine ununterbrochene Dünenreihe, die sie einzigartig an der belgischen Küste macht. So hat man den Eindruck eines natürlichen Strandes und ist gleichzeitig in der Nähe des Ortes.
Die naturbelassene, rund 4 km lange und bis zu 350 m breite Dünenkette ist der natürliche Schutzwall für das dahinter und unter dem Meeresspiegel liegende Land.
The Highland is a Scottish breed of rustic cattle. It originated in the Scottish Highlands and the Outer Hebrides islands of Scotland and has long horns and a long shaggy coat. It is a hardy breed, bred to withstand the intemperate conditions in the region.
Highland cattle descend from the Hamitic Longhorn, which were brought to Britain by Neolithic farmers in the second millennium BC, as the cattle migrated northwards through Africa and Europe. Highland cattle were historically of great importance to the economy, with the cattle being raised for meat primarily and sold in England.
The 1885 herd book describes two distinct types of Highland cattle. One was the West Highland, or Kyloe, originating and living mostly in the Outer Hebrides, which had harsher conditions. These cattle tended to be smaller, to have black coats and, due to their more rugged environment, to have long hair. These cattle were named due to the practice of relocating them. The kyles are narrow straits of water, and the cattle were driven across them to get to market.
The other type was the mainland; these tended to be larger because their pastures provided richer nutrients. They came in a range of colours, most frequently dun or red. These types have now been crossbred so that there is no distinct difference.
Since the early 20th century, breeding stock has been exported to many parts of the world, especially Australia and North America.
It is estimated that there are now around 15,000 Highland cattle in the United Kingdom.
My pet female Regal Jumping Spider Lucy looking out from her little hiding spot in a plant. Lucy was captive bred but the Regal's natural territory is in the southeastern U.S, the Greater Antilles, and the Bahamas. They are most common in peninsular Florida.
Südlich von Vesterø Havn erstreckt sich eine reizvolles Areal aus einem weiten Strand, einem schmalen Dünengürtel und einer Heidelandschaft mit eingestreuten kleinen Wasserflächen.
Syd for Vesterø Havn er et charmerende område bestående af en bred strand, et smalt klitbælte og hede med spredte små vandkroppe.
South of Vesterø Havn is a charming area consisting of a wide beach, a narrow belt of dunes and a heath landscape with scattered small water areas.
"le feu sacré" une série de photos consacrée à la passion de Rémi le boulanger; dans son univers au sein du couvent alternatif ou il élabora pendant des années un pain à l'ancienne cuit au feu de bois. Rémi vient de nous quitter.....
Rosa 'Spartan' is a floribunda rose cultivar, bred by Gene Boerner, and introduced into Australia in 1956 by Hazlewood Bros. Pty. Ltd. The plant's stock parents are florinda roses, 'Geranium Red' and 'Fashion'. 'Tiffany' was the recipient of the Portland Gold Medal in 1955.
'Spartan' is a vigorous, rounded, bushy shrub, 3 to 4 ft (90–121 cm) in height with a 2 to 3 ft (60–90 cm) spread. Blooms have an average diameter of 2 to 3 in (5–7 cm) with 25 to 30 petals. Flowers are a deep orange-pink, and can be more orange in hot climates and pink in cooler climates.[2] Flowers have a strong, fruity fragrance. Blooms are medium-large and have a high-centered bloom form. Flowers are borne mostly solitary or in small clusters of 3–7, with glossy, dark green, leathery foliage. The buds are large, pointed and ovoid. The plant is a vigorous grower and blooms in flushes from spring through autumn. The plant is sometimes prone to blackspot in autumn. It thrives in USDA zone 6 through 9b.
Another day, another vulture. I so love vultures.
This species weighs around 6-8 kgs and has a wingspan of over 2.5 metres.
In captivity they can live for over 30 years.
The Hawk Conservancy has successfully bred this species of vulture, and during our visit, they had a camera fixed on the nest enabling a view of the chicks.
Vultures are, in fact, very hygienic birds and will often gather in a large groups around a favourite watering hole to drink, bathe, and preen.
A group of vultures is known as a venue; when circling in the air, a group is called a kettle.
Griffon vultures have a poor sense of smell and rely entirely on sight to find food – a vulture is able to spot a 1 metre carcass from a distance of 6.4 km (4 miles).
(A bit like me, but with chocolate hobnobs).
Captive-bred specimens - siblings. Three of the many beautiful frogs provided as models at a photography workshop.
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Savannah & Atlanta heritage SD70ACe leads NS 224 west through the slow-ordered reverse curve east of New Baden, IL. Site of a significant derailment a couple years ago, cleanup continues to this day.
Thanks to WR for the play-by-play while I was at work. Managed to get in position just before a tidal wave of foamy activists arrived on scene.
I stood in front of a bakery on a cold January morning and was fascinated by the play of colors caused by the fogged windows. As the boy was about to leave the store, I pressed the shutter button.
G-BRED : Canadair CL-44D-4 : Redcoat Air Cargo
Redcoat was a small British cargo airline, initially using Britannias, followed by this CL-44.
3 Thoroughbreds walk across a paddock of rich Kentucky Bluegrass in the early dawn light at a thoroughbred farm near Lexington. Shot facing away from the sun so the horizon was still dark while the hillside was getting the early sunlight. I spent a lot of time driving around trying to find just the right farm at sunrise. Just before the sun came up there was some mist in the lower lying areas which makes for a great photo. Unfortunately I just couldn't get the right combo of mist and scene, and a lot of the farm fences basically butt right up against the road, making it pretty dangerous to try to pull over and shoot on the narrow side roads while the traffic whips by. Then I came upon this beautiful farm and the horses at first were sort of randomly walking and munching and then the leader decided to relocate and they fall in to line following across the hill. The symmetry of the three combined with the lines across the fresh-mown grass looked interesting to me. No mist or dramatic sunrise colors though :-(. I chose symmetry and horses over color for this one.
Eurasian Harvest Mouse / micromys minutus. (Captive bred) Derbyshire. 23/05/15.
'REVEALING A DARKER SIDE'.
At a photography workshop three years ago, working with captive bred Harvest Mice, I can remember being very surprised by the intense colour of their underfur. I discovered that beneath the bright, gingery-brown guard hairs lies a dense black fur.
The Harvest Mouse pictured was happily clambering around some dead plant stems. It frequently passed thin projections that dug into it, causing the guard hairs to become dishevelled and out of place. This is exactly what had happened when I made the image, thus revealing the area of sooty black underfur.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
1967, 68, 69, 70 Mustang Shelby GT500 Concept.
The Edits:
•  Original car was white with blue striping - Painted it "Cream Orange" - changed stripes to black.
•  Original grill work was.......well ugly. Replaced inner grill, added  fender scoops from BOSS 302
•  Original tires and wheels, replaced.
•  Original turn signal lights were white - changed to bright orange.
• Original power plant unknown - Carroll Shelby dropped in high performance 429 c.i. engine. (Thanks Carroll )
•  Added various badges / trim
I used to have quite a few finches that I raised back
around 1980-1990.
I had a pair of Australian Lady Gouldian Finches
and was able to raise some young from them.
The pair I had were captive bred.
This shot is from one of my winter projects.
I ended up making over $850.00 from that winter project.
While in todays terms that doesn't sound like a lot, back then dollars went a lot farther.
Hope the bright colors brighten your day.
This was scanned from an old slide.
‘The Alexandra Rose’, bred by David Austin (1992).
After the last night’s rain, she was blooming with fresh raindrops in tender sunlight through the break in the clouds. Simply beautiful.
Captive bred 75mm final instar larva of Suraka Silkmoth, which is found on Madagascar and Mayotte.
Thanks for your visit… Any comment you make on my photographs is greatly appreciated and encouraging! But please do not use this image without permission.
A very gentle Bull Arab (an Australian breed}. Maggies' such an old softie that you can't believe she was bred for boar hunting.
Crow in the spotlight ...
Sony ILCE-7R
300mm F2.8 G
The mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) is a perching duck species found in East Asia. It is medium-sized, at 41–49 cm (16–19 in) long with a 65–75 cm (26–30 in) wingspan. It is closely related to the North American wood duck, the only other member of the genus Aix. Aix is an Ancient Greek word used by Aristotle to refer to an unknown diving bird, and galericulata is the Latin for a wig, derived from galerum, a cap or bonnet.
The adult male is a striking and unmistakable bird. It has a red bill, large white crescent above the eye and reddish face and "whiskers". The breast is purple with two vertical white bars, and the flanks ruddy, with two orange "sails" at the back. The female is similar to female wood duck, with a white eye-ring and stripe running back from the eye, but is paler below, has a small white flank stripe, and a pale tip to its bill.
Both the males and females have crests, but the crest is more pronounced on the male.
Like many other species of ducks, the male undergoes a moult after the mating season into eclipse plumage. When in eclipse plumage, the male looks similar to the female, but can be told apart by their bright yellow-orange beak, lack of any crest, and a less-pronounced eye-stripe.
Mandarin ducklings are almost identical in appearance to wood ducklings, and very similar to mallard ducklings. The ducklings can be distinguished from mallard ducklings because the eye-stripe of mandarin ducklings (and wood ducklings) stops at the eye, while in mallard ducklings it reaches all the way to the bill.
The hooded crow (Corvus cornix) (also called hoodie is a Eurasian bird species in the Corvus genus. Widely distributed, it is also known locally as Scotch crow and Danish crow. In Ireland it is called grey crow, just as in the Slavic languages and in Danish. In German it is called "mist crow" ("Nebelkrähe"). Found across Northern, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, as well as parts of the Middle East, it is an ashy grey bird with black head, throat, wings, tail, and thigh feathers, as well as a black bill, eyes, and feet. Like other corvids, it is an omnivorous and opportunistic forager and feeder.
It is so similar in morphology and habits to the carrion crow (Corvus corone), for many years they were considered by most authorities to be geographical races of one species. Hybridization observed where their ranges overlapped added weight to this view. However, since 2002, the hooded crow has been elevated to full species status after closer observation; the hybridisation was less than expected and hybrids had decreased vigour. Within the hooded crow species, four subspecies are recognized, with one, the Mesopotamian crow, possibly distinct enough to warrant species status itself.
Except for the head, throat, wings, tail, and thigh feathers, which are black and mostly glossy, the plumage is ash-grey, the dark shafts giving it a streaky appearance. The bill and legs are black; the iris dark brown. Only one moult occurs, in autumn, as in other crow species. The male is the larger bird, otherwise the sexes are alike. Their flight is slow and heavy and usually straight. Their length varies from 48 to 52 cm (19 to 20 in). When first hatched, the young are much blacker than the parents. Juveniles have duller plumage with bluish or greyish eyes and initially a red mouth. Wingspan is 98 cm (39 in) and weight is on average 510 g.
The mallard or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck which breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, the Falkland Islands and South Africa. This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae.
The male birds (drakes) have a glossy green head and are grey on wings and belly, while the females (hens or ducks) have mainly brown-speckled plumage. Both sexes have an area of white-bordered black speculum feathers which commonly also include iridescent blue feathers especially among males. Mallards live in wetlands, eat water plants and small animals, and are social animals preferring to congregate in groups or flocks of varying sizes. This species is the main ancestor of most breeds of domesticated ducks.
The mallard is a medium-sized waterfowl species although it is often slightly heavier than most other dabbling ducks. It is 50–65 cm (20–26 in) long (of which the body makes up around two-thirds), has a wingspan of 81–98 cm (32–39 in),[16] and weighs 0.72–1.58 kg (1.6–3.5 lb). Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 25.7 to 30.6 cm (10.1 to 12.0 in), the bill is 4.4 to 6.1 cm (1.7 to 2.4 in) and the tarsus is 4.1 to 4.8 cm (1.6 to 1.9 in).
The breeding male mallard is unmistakable, with a glossy bottle-green head and white collar which demarcates the head from the purple-tinged brown breast, grey brown wings, and a pale grey belly. The rear of the male is black, with the dark tail having white borders. The bill of the male is a yellowish orange tipped with black while that of the female is generally darker ranging from black to mottled orange. The female mallard is predominantly mottled with each individual feather showing sharp contrast from buff to very dark brown, a coloration shared by most female dabbling ducks, and has buff cheeks, eyebrow, throat and neck with a darker crown and eye-stripe.
Owing to their highly 'malleable' genetic code, Mallards can display a large amount of variation, as seen here with this female, who displays faded or 'apricot' plumage.
Both male and female mallards have distinct iridescent purple blue speculum feathers edged with white, prominent in flight or at rest, though temporarily shed during the annual summer moult. Upon hatching, the plumage colouring of the duckling is yellow on the underside and face (with streaks by the eyes) and black on the back (with some yellow spots) all the way to the top and back of the head. Its legs and bill are also black. As it nears a month in age, the duckling's plumage will start becoming drab, looking more like the female (though its plumage is more streaked) and its legs will lose their dark grey colouring. Two months after hatching, the fledgling period has ended and the duckling is now a juvenile. Between three and four months of age, the juvenile can finally begin flying as its wings are fully developed for flight (which can be confirmed by the sight of purple speculum feathers). Its bill will soon lose its dark grey colouring and its sex can finally be distinguished visually by three factors. The bill colouring is yellow in males, black and orange for females. The breast feathers are reddish-brown for males, brown for females. The centre tail feather is curled for males (called a drake feather), straight for females.[citation needed]
During the final period of maturity leading up to adulthood (6–10 months of age), the plumage of female juveniles remains the same while the plumage of male juveniles slowly changes to its characteristic colours.[citation needed] This plumage change also applies to adult mallard males when they transition in and out of their non-breeding eclipse plumage at the beginning and the end of the summer moulting period. The adulthood age for mallards is 14 months and the average life expectancy is 3 years, but they can live to twenty.
In captivity, domestic ducks come in wild-type plumages, white, and other colours. Most of these colour variants are also known in domestic mallards not bred as livestock, but kept as pets, aviary birds, etc., where they are rare but increasing in availability.
A noisy species, the female has a deeper quack stereotypically associated with ducks. Male mallards also make a sound which is phonetically similar to that of the female, but it is a deep and raspy sound which can also sound like mek or whak. When incubating a nest, or when offspring are present, Females vocalise differently, making a call which sounds like a truncated version of the usual quack. They will also hiss if the nest or their offspring are threatened or interfered with.
The mallard is a rare example of both Allen's Rule and Bergmann's Rule in birds. Bergmann's Rule, which states that polar forms tend to be larger than related ones from warmer climates, has numerous examples in birds. Allen's Rule says that appendages like ears tend to be smaller in polar forms to minimize heat loss, and larger in tropical and desert equivalents to facilitate heat diffusion, and that the polar taxa are stockier overall. Examples of this rule in birds are rare, as they lack external ears. However, the bill of ducks is very well supplied with blood vessels and is vulnerable to cold.[citation needed]
Due to the malleability of the mallard's genetic code, which gives it its vast interbreeding capability, mutations in the genes that decide plumage colour are very common and have resulted in a wide variety of hybrids such as Brewer's duck (mallard × gadwall, Anas strepera).
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Wikipedia
The collared dove bred for the first time in Britain in 1955 in Norfolk. Before 1930 it was confined to Turkey and the Balkans in Europe, but in 20 years it rapidly expanded its range, potentially due to the dispersal behaviour of young individuals.
Young collared doves have been known to travel over 600km away from where they were born. These epic journeys, made all over Europe, tend to be in a northwest direction, reflecting the direction of the range expansion in the 20th century.
Collared dove nests usually just consist of a platform of sticks – no construction prizes here! They usually nest in trees or shrubs but will also use buildings, favouring ledges, guttering, and the brackets of security lights or satellite dishes.
If you’ve ever seen a detailed print where a bird has flown into a window, it’s probably a collared dove. Their feathers are so dusty that, on a window imprint, you can often see the detail of individual feathers, the beak and even the eyelids.
This quintessential Japanese garden was created roughly 300 years ago by the area’s daimyo (domain lord). A symbol of the power of the samurai, Okayama Korakuen Garden is considered one of the three great gardens of Japan alongside Kanazawa City’s Kenroku-en and Mito City’s Kairakuen.
Japanese cranes are also bred in the park. Other attractions include the plum grove with 100 trees and seasonal flowers including spring cherry blossoms, azaleas, irises, and lotuses.
Stunning & immaculately kept gardens, well worth a visit.